Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "Fire of Learning" channel.

  1. 25:15 Covering 50 to 75 feet in three leaps? I had a cat who could jump at least 10 feet in one leap. He was a Manx, so he had larger hind legs than the typical cat, but I could certainly see a bobcat being able to cover 50 feet in three leaps. Especially since this thing supposedly hissed like one when shot at.
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  2. Meaning that anatomically modern humans are elves.
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  3. The Pleiades cluster has far more stars than we can see without a telescope. And there was never universal agreement as to which ones should be considered the "main" stars. In modern astronomy, there are 10 named stars in the Pleiades, the seven sisters (one of which is actually 2 stars in a binary system, Sterope I and Sterope II) plus their parents (who are offset a little from the rest and might not have been considered part of the cluster in ancient times).
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  4.  @furryslayer8688  Nah, it was toxic as hell in the early 1800s.
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  5. However, we do know that oral traditions tend to change over time. That's why it's virtually never possible to pin down an "original" version of any given myth. Even aside from stories drifting over time, there also tend to be regional variations. And even multiple different versions of a given myth in circulation at the same time and place, with nobody having known which was the "correct" version and sometimes not even considering it to matter.
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  6. If we do see Betelguese go supernova in our lifetimes, that will mean it actually already happened about 500 years ago. Since its estimated distance is 500 light-years. It's estimated that the Betelguese supernova will be seen on Earth (if any humans are left to see it) sometime in the next 100,000 years. So it's rather unlikely to happen in our lifetimes, but it's possible. Especially if Betelguese's mass turns out to be on the upper end of the estimates (since the bigger star is, the shorter its life will tend to be).
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  7. Even if there was a visible supernova, that would only last for a few months before ceasing to be visible to the naked eye. So the same people who saw it happen would also see it vanish, and they could easily interpret that as just being the way a star dies. Which would be partially correct, but only for very large stars.
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  8. That is a possibility, I suppose.
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  9. When was the last time that all 7 stars could be distinguished with the naked eye?
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